The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-03-14
STATES RIGHTS,

Dy seto eo-AosAtotAoAAai AoSti4Ao u oldteb
rights, tho Democratic party cf this coun-
try stands to-day whore it always stood,
and, as trust, it will stand forever here
after. Loud app!ause.l Twenty. five
years ago the tendency was 10 carry this
doctrine 10 dangerous extreme, but
since that t!no the dangerous extreme has
threatened from quite an opposite .dircc-
ton. Great and powerful interests, too
powerful almost to be successfully resist
cd, sre constantly pressing against the
bsrricsa oi tho constitution and demanding
tne extension OF this Federal power to O
degree never contemplated by tie most
extreme Federaliet in tho early days. Il
is quite common noa, to hear gentlemen,
able gentlemen, in Congress and else
where, contending icr the exerciee Of po "
or by the General Government oyer ps,-
ticulrr subjects simply because the States
refuse to DO 90, or because it is thought
thst the Stste legislation might not be en-
ti1oly effective. The argument is that
whatever the States will not do OF cannot
do must be done by Congress or tho de-
parImsnts Of the General Government,
and that, independently OF these specific
grants Of power, it is the right and the
duty OF q Government to exercise gem
eral supervision and control over all the
concerns OF the people. $Ssi4. If
"Mr. President, this is not Democratic
doctrine as I understaud it, aud it neyer
was. Tremendous cheers. II means
Capitalization first eud inevitable dissolu-
tion afterwards. No part Of the Union is
so vitality intereeted in the preservation
and the maintenance intact Of this local
authority 90 the New England States, and
no part of the Union have the beneficial
results attending the maintenance of this
doctrine been 30 thoroughly demonstrated.
Your town meeting is the most Demo-
cratic institution In thiscountry. Cheers
1t has never endangered the liberties Of .
single human being. The town, the State
and the General Government all have
their appropriate powers and duties, aud
SO long as these are respected and main
tanned, neither encreacbing on the do
main Of the other, there will be harmony
and unity in our complex system Of gov
crnment. go El
Fortunately, we have at last been per-
mitted to inaugurate Democratic Na-
tionel Administration, and more foriu-
nately still, that Administration by it's
conservative and patriotic couree, by its
honest and faithful execution OF the laws,
and by it's regard Tor the rights Of all
classes Of men, has given abundant as.
surance that the executive power Gun be
safely trusted 10 our hands, This country,
was never better governed than it is now,
[cheersl aud it was never more tranquil
and contented than it is now. It is true
that abuspa still exist, but they we're not
inauEurated by this Standardization Many
OF them have already been corrected, and
most OF those that remain are not under
the control OF the executive departments
alone. E'1q} y TT.sE.
Congressman Wilson, OF West Virginia,
was Introduced, and Gpoke Of Democracy
from a Southern standpoint, The South
e1n standpoint, he said. was not much dit-
ent IRON any other. Whatever bslell the
Democratic party in the future this
achievement OF tho reunion Of the people
would stand as not tho least glorious OF
its achievements. The Democratic party
muat now align itself upon those great
lines OF policy which were alone able to
meet and deal with the great political
issues Of the day. 1t must have great doc.
trinea and great belief in them. ,G8$
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